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Prof. Jianxi Luo was invited by the Faculty of Innovation and Design at the City University of Macau, to deliver a public lecture on "The Future of Design and Innovation", September 2024
Our paper on "Reading Users’ Minds from What They Say: An Investigation into LLM-based Empathic Mental Inference" won the Best Paper Award at ASME 36th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology, Washington DC, August 2024
Prof. Jianxi Luo delivered a keynote speech on "Design Science: What Is It" at the 2nd International Conference on Design Science, held at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, August 2024
Prof. Jianxi Luo delivered a keynote speech on "Large AI Models for Manufacturing Innovation" at Guangzhou Knowledge City AI + Industry Ecosystem Conference, June 2024
Scientia Sinica Technologica selected "State-of-The Art and Technical Trends of Intelligent Flying Cars" as the cover article of its latest issue, May 2024
Technovation has published a special issue on "Beyond the Data Fads: Consequences of Big Data to Contemporary Innovation and Technology Management", co-edited by Professor Jianxi Luo, May 2024
AI EDAM has published a thematic collection on "Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science in Design", co-edited by Professor Jianxi Luo, May 2024
Professor Jianxi Luo delivered a keynote talk on "Data-Driven Innovation for Manufacturing Industries" for the 1st International Workshop on Design x Manufacturing (DxM), Shenzhen, 25 April 2024
Professor Jianxi Luo joined the City University of Hong Kong, Department of Systems Engineering, March 2024
Winter School on Design Science, Jan 8-12, 2024
Professor Jianxi Luo gave an invited talk on "The Future of Technology and Design" at the 5th International Conference on Technology and Design, Dec 2023
Professor Jianxi Luo delivered a keynote speech on the "Future of Design Innovation" for Tsinghua Maker Day, Nov 2023
Call for Papers: Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering (JCISE) speciall issue on Large Language Models in Design and Manufafacturing, Nov 2023
Professor Jianxi Luo joined the stage with Don Norman, Francesco Zurlo, and Lou Yongqi to discuss Design Research and Education at Tongji University, September 2023
Our paper on Generative Transformers for Design Concept Generation (Preprint) is selected as Spotlight Paper by the editorial board of ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, July 2023
Professor Jianxi Luo gave a keynote at World Design Cities Conference (WDCC), September 2023
Lab alumnus Dr. Binyang Song joined Virgina Tech as an Asssitant Professor, September 2023
Prof. Jianxi Luo gave a keynote speech on "The Future of Technology and Design" at IEEE International Conference on Design Science, July 2023
Professor Jianxi Luo was invited to attend Shenzhen Design Week 2023 and give a Dean's Lecture on the future of design and innovation at SUSTech Design School, April 2023
Professor Jianxi Luo gave an invited talk on data-driven innovation and generative AI to PPG Inudstries, April 2023
Professor Luo gave an invited talk at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), March 2023
Professor Jianxi Luo gave an invited talk on Data-Driven Innovation for Iprova, March 2023
Professor Luo gave an invited talk at Imperial College London, February 2023
Professor Jianxi Luo gave an invited talk on Data-Driven Innovation for Lockheed Martin, November 2022
Professor Jianxi Luo attended G20 in Bali, gave a talk on Data-Driven Innovation, and participated in various dialogues on Science of Governance via trustworthy data and AI, November 2022
Stanford University & Elsevier has recognized Professor Jianxi Luo among the world's top 2% scientists based on standardized citation impact for 3 consecutive years since 2019, October 2022
Professor Luo gave an invited talk at University of Carlifornia at Berkeley (UC Berkeley), October 2022
Nature publishes Professor Jianxi Luo's correspondance on the U.S. CHIPS and Science law, October 2022
Our paper on Engineering Knowledge Graph is selected as Spotlight Paper by the editorial board of ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering and presented in the Spotlight session at the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers in Engineering Conference in St Louis, MO, USA, August 2022
The Special Issue on "Innovation in Design Processes" of IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management co-edited by Prof. Jianxi Luo has been published in August 2022
Professor Jianxi Luo gave an invited talk to Autodesk Research, 8 June 2022
Professor Jianxi Luo chairs "Deep Learning and Design" workshop at the 10th International Conference on Design Computing & Cognition (DCC'22), Glasgow, UK, July 2, 2022
Professor Jianxi Luo and collaborators at Tsinghua University won Siliver Medal at the Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions, March 2022
The DDI Lab's positioning paper entitled "Data-Driven Innovation: What Is It?" is published on IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, January 2022
Prof. Jianxi Luo participated in panel disscussion on "STEM Education in the Age of AI” at the Formula Edge Competition, STEM Plus, Hong Kong, December 10, 2021
Prof. Jianxi Luo gave an invited talk on patent data for AI for design in the NIST Workshop on Data Wrangling for Engineering Design and Manufacturing, November 16, 2021
InnoGPS, namely Innovation Global Position System, is a visual expert system to aid design ideation and innovation
TechNet, namely Technology Semantic Network, is a large knowledge base to enable NLP and AI in engineering
Prof. Jianxi Luo gave the Methods in Focus seminar on "Guiding Data-Driven Design Ideation by Knowledge Distance" with the community of ISPIM - International Society for Professional Innovation Management, September 23, 2021
Our paper on Machine Learning-Based Design Concept Evaluation won Journal of Mechanical Design's 2020 "Editors' Choice Award", August 2021
Harvard Business Review publishes 3 Strateiges to Convience People Your Startup Is Legit, co-authored by Prof. Jianxi Luo, June 2021
Prof. Wim Vanhaverbeke, gave a DDI seminar on "Disruptive Power of Digital Technologies and Strategic Need for Innovation Ecosystems", 2 June, 2021.
Dr. Seng-Beng Ho, Senior Scientist of A*STAR Dept of Social & Cognitive Computing, gave a DDI seminar on "The View from the 1980s: An AI Odyssey from the Past to the Future", 7 April, 2021
Lab alumnus Dr. Serhad Sarica joined A*STAR Institute of High Performance Computing as Scientist, February 2021
Dr. Serhad Sarica successfully defended his PhD thesis - "Technology Semantic Network: A Knowledge Base to Enable Artificial Intelligence Applications in Engineering Design", on December 18, 2020
Prof. Jianxi Luo gave an invited talk on the Tactics for COVID-19 Pandemic Forecasting at IEEE InTech Forum of IEEE Computer Society, 2 December, 2020
Prof. Jianxi Luo appeared on TIMES Now India, RT UK, Ecos del Combeima of Colombia, Fuji TV Japan, Brazilian TV Network, Abu Dhabi TV, Channel News Asia among other media on data-driven prediction of COVID-19, May 2020
Lab alumnus Dr. Bowen Yan joined HP Enterprise as Data Scientist, February 2020
Our team won the "Best Paper Award" at 31st International Conference on Design Theory & Methodology, Anaheim, California, August, 2019
Dr. Binyang Song successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "Data-Driven Design: Patent Data and Network Analysis", July 3, 2019
Dr. Yuejun He successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "Combinational Creativity: Theories, Methods and Tools", July 2, 2019
Professor Luo gave an invited talk at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), April 2019
Lab alumnus Ms. Izabela Witoszko joined Semantic Machines (now part of Microsoft) as Product Manager, February 2019
Lab alumnus Dr. Giorgio Triulzi joined Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia) as Assistant Professor of Management, January 2018
Lab alumnus Dr. Jeff Alstott joined IARPA as Program Manager and Director of National Intelligence Office (Washington DC, USA), September 2017
Lab alumnus Dr. David Song joined Monash University as Asssitant Professor, November 2015
